From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #25 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, January 21 1999 Volume 05 : Number 025 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: new Ani Difranco thoughts?? ["Tim" ] ani difranco: 6up ["Heidi Maier" ] ani [jackhonky ] Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] welcome [jackhonky ] It's finally here! GLEAMIR Wednesday night! That's now, tonite! Don't delay! [stunning@tez] simple machines [jackhonky ] Re: Free SNEAK PREVIEW! Sarah Slean song online [Andrew Fries ] RE: Hello Ecto ["Foghorn J Fornorn" ] Justin Roberts & Cow Lily are at GUNTHER MURPHYS, not the Hideout [stunni] Over the Rhine Aussie Tour [Michael Curry ] Can you help me? (fwd) [Sherlyn Koo ] Lida Husik playing in DC [Neile Graham ] Re: welcome [Bill Mazur ] Re: Hello Ecto [Bill Mazur ] Re: Free SNEAK PREVIEW! Sarah Slean song online [Bill Mazur Subject: Re: new Ani Difranco thoughts?? This is an e-mail I sent the ani newsgroup about a week ago, as Upx6 not only came out a week early in Australia, but I found an advance copy anyway. Some of my opinions have changed slightly, but its fairly accurate concerning my general feeling about the album. - ------------ Yes it's true. I've had Upx6 over here in Australia (!) for over a week now. I assume it must be an advance copy given to a record store, but who knows? Anyway, "what's it like?" I hear you screaming, and "Is it any good?" The second one I'm still having trouble answering. Not because it is bad - in fact it is excellent - but because I don't know where it rates in the Ani scheme of things. It probably won't enter my (un)holy triumvate, Imperfectly, NAPG and LPC, but it stands up well next to OOR and Dilate. Which means bloody amazing. The general vibe of the album is that of a downbeat jam. The music has the dark angularity of Dilate, plus the hammond organ again, but with the (non-studio) experimentation of Fuel. This is as live as anything she's done since the early records, but with a full time keyboardist/organist/wurlitzer player as well, which makes the sound very unique for an Ani album. 'Tis Of Thee, the opener, starts with a softly plucked guitar and Ani's voice in much the same way as LPC. It's a very sad song about the persecution of other races by White America, with typically brilliant lyrics. Unlike LPC it doesn't suddenly explode in the chorus. In fact it stays very very soft, with only a little organ accompaniment in the background. Its probably Ani's most understated opener yet. Things pick up with Virtue, which is all clanging guitars and funky touches. Musically it reminds me a bit of Asking Too Much and Glass House, although perhaps a more accurate description would be Outta You strained through Fuel. Sounds weird? It is, with this funky bridge and Ani both singing the words and snarling in the background. Lyrically, its one of my favourite songs here, with one of Ani's best lyrical tricks - much of the song is based around how horrible good sunsets can be in the wrong circumstances, which fits into the opening line, "Virtue is relative at best." Come Away From It slows things down again. Opening with just Ani singing the title against an organ, the first part of this eight-and-a-half minute song seems a bit unnecessarily long, but once it gets started its excellent. Again very downbeat, the story is very similar to Two Little Girls, only this time Ani is watching her lover get wasted by drugs. As it builds up it become almost a hymn, with all the band singing along. It only gets better over its entire length. Jukebox speeds things up again, all squealing guitars, particularly a compressed riff which sounds like a piece of machinery. It's like an electrified Superhero. Ani's voice is distorted and shrill, and the tempo has a very stop-start nature to it reminiscent of The Pixies, but lyrically this could come from the first song, a lovely portrait of an abandoned woman. Once again Ani forms amazingly complex metaphors with seeming ease. One of my favourite songs. Angel Food is again slower. There's a very trippy, bluesy jam feel to this track, sort of like Pixie, but even more so if you know what I mean. Although for the most part its very good, towards the end it loses its tune and just goes nowhere for me. There's lots of studio conversation and gimmicky "it sounded funny at the time" samples, but for the most part, despite being under six minutes, its far too long. As if acknowledging this, Ani follows it with the most succint, direct song on the album. Angry Anymore is an absolutely gorgeous fast tempo ballad, with an ancestory stretching right back to Both Hands, and encompassing such other great songs as "Falling Is Like This" and "Loom". The song, mainly an absolution to Ani's father, is made ten times better by the excellent decision to play much of it on a banjo. Strangely Ani decides to put the two most recognisably Ani tracks together. Everest is, if possible, even more beautiful than Angry Anymore. Similar to Overlap, but much much better, it deserves to be an out and out Ani classic. The fantastic lyrics which don't look like much on the page but sound great in the context of the song, only make up half of this excellent piece. If Ani didn't sing them so beautifully (note: much of Ani's singing on this album is harsh, so when it becomes magically clear and smooth, it makes an amazing contrast) they wouldn't have the effect they do. This is probably my favourite song at the moment. Up Up Up Up Up Up has a little funky opening on bass, with some jarring, dissonant electric guitar, but for the most part is very sparse, with a nice but undemanding tune. You begin to think it's not going anywhere when suddenly it turns into this full-fledged...um... power-ballad! Well, not in the Celine sense, but there's all these pianos, wurlizters and military like drums everywhere. It's simply brilliant, indeed its my favourite moment on the entire album, but you get the feeling that something better's coming, because it builds into this huge climax when suddenly.... we're back to the opening tune, where Ani recaps the first verse before it stops. This trick works very well, and is very clever, but I still wish a bit that the middle section was longer. Know Now Then is another one of those funkified electric snarls in the same vein as Virtue. It all sounds very interesting, but I think its still a bit too far down in the track listing for me to have absorbed it properly yet. Trickle Down is the darkest track here, basically an acoustic guitar, an accordian and a water cooler, it almost has no tune at all, which is the entire point. Instead Ani's voice carries the tune, although really in spirit this is much more akin to her spoken word pieces (Tiptoe?) in its intensity. Ani basically talks about the slow destruction of Buffalo, in a much more direct and angry way than Cradle And All did. Its a very powerful, moving track, but I'm not sure if I actually *like* it if you know what I mean. At 13 minutes, Hat Shaped Hat is basically Pulse part two, although in many ways they could not be more different. Where Pulse was slow, abstract and beautiful, Hat is a riotous beast which flops and flounders all over the place. Where Pulse sounded very deliberate, as if Ani had spent a year just thinking about the song before she allowed the band to participate, Hat sounds like an of-the-moment, "come on guys just do what you want" kind of thing. Opening with an enormous racket which eventually becomes a cascading set of drum machines operated by Goat Boy, it jams from the beginning, with Ani rousing herself with a shouting match with one of the band members, before finally actually starting the song, which is sort of similar to The Diner. The lyrics are quite throwaway and jokey, though that's only a relative thing 'cos this is Ani we're talking about here. The obvious concession to the idea of "jamming" is that Ani will suddenly stop ting the song and just start repeating the last line or yelling or something. It basically runs through twice, the second time both tighter in places and less restricted in others. While none of its 13 minutes starts to get boring, it doesn't feel as magical as Pulse to me. Maybe because much of it seems intent on saying "Look how much fun we're having!" Which is fine for the band, but leaves the listener somewhat mystified. Anyway, there's my opinion. It'll probably change tomorrow, but its the best I can do for now. In summation: Upx6 is another great, ambitious, though at times slightly patchy, album from Ani. It shows an entirely new direction for her music, though considering her two previous albums, its one she may choose not to follow. For now though, its a wonderful place to visit. Regards, Tim - ---------- >From: Songbird22@aol.com >To: ecto@smoe.org >Subject: new Ani Difranco thoughts?? >Date: Wed, Jan 20, 1999, 4:14 AM > >Anyone have opinions/thoughts/reviews on the new Ani Difranco 6UP? I want to >go get it tomorrow but I'm running real low on money and have to use it >sparingly, but I'm in desperate need of new music... Thoughts? > >Thanks, >Jessica >http://adam.nettfriends.com/Jess > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:03:56 +1100 From: "Heidi Maier" Subject: ani difranco: 6up jessica wrote: << Anyone have opinions/thoughts/reviews on the new Ani Difranco 6UP? I want to go get it tomorrow but I'm running real low on money and have to use it sparingly, but I'm in desperate need of new music... Thoughts? >> ah. my sympathies are with you? are you a university student too? eternal poverty seems to be our lot in life! *sigh* 6up was released here in australia on the 9th of january, and i was lucky enough to be able to get a copy (you've got to be grateful when somebody gives you a record voucher for christmas! :) i know a lot of people have been describing it as a "difficult" listen, but my thoughts are that it is really good ... it's yet another musical progression for ani, and that's one of the things i love best about her -- from the word go (namely her self-titled debut) she has continued to evolve and mature, and that's why i think it is relatively pointless for me to sit here and try and draw comparisons ie: "it's very different to LPC, kind of more like dilate" ... it *is* different, but it's also very good, and i think most listeners of ani's music will tend to come at it from that angle. i'd certainly recommend it, though no doubt everybody will have their individual opinions (as it should be!). looking forward to seeing ani next friday (her second australian tour in less than a year -- and i spent years thinking i'd never get to see her! goes to show ...), heidi. - --- i hate high fashion. i hate supermodels as celebrity - i hate that we reward people for being genetic freaks! i don't care if this makes me seem unlikeable to you, if you hate me for this, because i hate models in general. and when even female journalists say 'cindy crawford - one of the *bigger* models' i am like: fuck you! i mean, shut up! you know you're lying --*janeane garofalo* heidi maier - maier@joynet.com.au ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:54:28 -0800 From: jackhonky Subject: ani > I didnt get it yet but how can you go wrong. its ani di franco actually i thought LITTLE PLASTIC CASTLES was a near miss. could have been great. instead was rather middling. i am also not very enthusiastic about anything before puddle dive (certain specific songs, yes, but on the whole most of the early albums weren't all that interesting to me) pre-reviews of the UP^6 seems to be mixed as well. some seem to say that ani is getting more and more comfortable with the studi - with the songs not revolving as much around her new found fame, as much as her old style songwriting, and the songs are better produced. others say that it is just another extention of LITTLE PLASTIC CASTLES. ANI herself says she is kinda excited about this album, as it seems to be an accumulation of her past experiences with studio recording, thus being sound more better and energetic, just like her live experience. of course, every interview i have read with her, post OUT OF RANGE, she has said this. i have to admit, that i Loved^6 DILATE, though that may be because i got it at a very critical time of my life (right around my big break up) or it might have been because it was my first ANI purchase that i liked (i had previously bought LIKE I SAID and it didn't take.) anyway i just wish there was a BEST BUY in the SF area. they always put new ANI CD's on sale when they are first released for 9.99 (ever since NOT A PRETTY GIRL that is, with LIVING IN CLIP on sale for 16.99). i never buy from the chain stores, but i make the exception for this one specific ANI situation. grrr... irvin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 03:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ************* Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson (snpf@netscape.com) ************* ********************* David Beery (drum@traverse.net) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson Tue January 20 1970 Seanympf-Aquarius David Beery Tue January 20 1976 drum Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Sarah McLachlan Sun January 28 1968 Aquarius Ilka Heber Mon February 01 1965 Mermaid Bob Lovejoy Sun February 02 1947 Aquarius Diane Burke Sat February 02 1963 slow children Timothy S. Devine Tue February 03 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 04 1966 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Juha Kannisto Wed February 18 1970 Aquarius Joel Siegfried February 19 Penguin Crossing Linda Saboe Tue February 20 1951 aimless - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:21:17 -0800 From: jackhonky Subject: welcome BILL MAZUR spaked: > I only very recently came across the incredible music of Happy > Rhodes. What an amazing discovery! I was fairly warned about the > addictive nature of her music on the Ecto web site. Well I must admit > to being completely enchanted and entranced by her music! > My predominant musical interests lie with the progressive rock genre. hello bill! just wanted to welcome you to ecto! judging by your musical tastes, you most likely you love it here, and like most of us, find yourself spending large amounts of money because of all the new and interesting artists that you are told about on this list. > 02) Peter Gabriel (w/Genesis and solo) > 03) Yes > 08) Kate Bush > 09) Tori Amos > 10) Sarah McLachlan also you will find many many people on ecto who rank the above arists in their top ten as well. well, at least, all these artist do tend to appear fairly frequently in posts. the other that you list do as well, but not nearly as often. oh yeah, and isn't HAPPY great? as you probably know, HAPPY is a big YES fan as well. you can hear do her medley of YES songs that she performed at the YESfest in 94 on THE KEEP, that is if you haven't already aquired it. anyway, welcome! irvin ps. you were playing DEAD CAN DANCE. can you or anyone else clear up this whole thing about whether or not they broke up? i keep on hearing things like YES they DEFINITELY are not longer together, and then just last month in SPIN magazines 25 MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 99 issue, DCD was listed, along with how they have just finished recording it, and are in the middle of mixing it. CLARIFICATION anyone? if they broke up, but have already recorded the songs and are at the stages of mixing, won't they just go ahead and release it, post break up? what a waste if they don't. oh yeah, and among other people listed in the issue are the new RED HOUSE PAINTERS album (i can't wait - MARK KOZELEK previewed a bunch of songs at a solo show he did three or four months ago, and they sounded pretty good, though i think they probably will grow more on you by repeated listening), the new SEBADOH album (they kicked out BOB FAY the drummer, got a new drummer, and all the songs are fully written by all three members now, so it is going to be a tighter project), the new CURE album, which ROBERT SMITH says is a return to their darker earlier roots. he compared the new album to DISTINGRATION, which of course, makes me excited about it, as that was my FAVORITE ALL TIME CURE ALBUM hmmm....i never thought i would buy another CURE album again...the NEW KATE BUSH album, and the new BJORK project. ha. no. actually, i am just kidding about KATE BUSH. KATE wasn't mentioned once in the issue. when they hell is she going to release something new? it took her four years to do THE RED SHOES, and we are going on 6 years now since then....grr..... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 03:09:53 -0500 From: stunning@tezcat.com Subject: It's finally here! GLEAMIR Wednesday night! That's now, tonite! Don't delay! Okay, GLEAMIR is at Phyliss' Musical Inn. 1800 W. Division. (That's Division & Wood in Chicago) They begin at 10 o'clock. You must see this band! Who the heck is GLEAMIR? If you were privliged to see Catherine Smitko rip it up at the last few Hoot Nights at Schubas, then you've seen GLEAMIR! They were the AMAZING musician's backing her up. Tonight they'll be playing their own stuff. GLEAMIR are friends of Catherines and one of the BEST (yes, I'm liberally using caps) new ROCK bands I've seen lately! GOD, THEY'RE *SO* GOOD!!! They really blew me away and I have been waiting months to see this show... I predict great things for this band so come see them now while they're still working the intimate club setting. I will see you there, TONIGHT! Thanks for letting me gush! Tom ps. And don't forget to hit THE HIDEOUT (not the gay one, and there is a gay one too!) to swoon and swing on THURSDAY night with Justin Roberts at 9pm, followed by the Lily of the Cows, Stephanie Turner and her band Cow Lily (feat. Worth Wagers of the Moviegoers!) WABANSIA & ELSTON don't ya know. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:02:09 -0800 From: jackhonky Subject: simple machines well i am completely out of the loop. turns out the label SIMPLE MACHINES have closed their doors. back in the summer. doh. that was six months ago. i am REALLY out of it. course i was too busy moving across the country... kinda upset, but understandable after they explain it all. for more information check out their webpage http://www.southern.com/southern/label/SMA/ BUT this of course means that all the things that i wanted to order from them, ages ago, but never got around to, are no longer available. so anyway i am asking anyone on ecto, if they happen to have the Slack - Bates Stamper cassette and would be willing to make me a copy? i would be willing to trade for it. i have always wanted to get ahold of this tape, but never got around to it, and well, now looks like i can't. *sigh* another chapter closes. and i wasn't even aware of it. how sad. at least i know that IDA will still be around (signed to CAPITOL records). nice to know that the bands are not completely homeless. wonder when the new LIQUORICE album is going to come out (apparently it is still slated to come out, but not on SIMPLE MACHINES obviously, and last year when i saw JENNY on her solo show, she said she wasn't planning on releasing anything through 4AD anymore, because she wasn't happy with them). grrr... irvin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:08:49 +1100 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Free SNEAK PREVIEW! Sarah Slean song online In a message "Free SNEAK PREVIEW! Sarah Slean song online" on 19/Jan/1999 11:47:42 Steve I says: > There is now a free, CD-quality MP3 version of Sarah Slean's "Twin Moon" Ah, I just finished the download... New record in Feb? ... What do they mean, in Feb?!? That's at least two weeks away! ... I must have it .... Now!!! - ------------------------------------------------------ Resistance is not futile. - ------ http://www.zip.com.au/~afries/hall.html ------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:19:59 -0500 From: "Robert Lovejoy" Subject: Re: Hello Ecto Hello Bill, and welcome to the ecto list! > I only very recently came across the incredible music of Happy >Rhodes. What an amazing discovery! Curious as to exactly how you "discovered" her, as it probably wasn't from radio exposure! Anyway, from the musical qualifications you posted, I'm sure you've found a great resource here at ecto! Folks on this list have called attention to deserving artists that commercial radio ignores. As for Happy, what have you heard so far? There are quite a few albums extant, and every one of them offer incredible musical revelation. By the way, she's a "proghead" too, so even more reason for you to feel at home here! Finally (speaking of progressive), I was curious personally if you followed Gentle Giant at all? I was _really_ into them back in the 70's! There are one or two other Giant fans on this list, I should warn you, and they're as wierd as I am! Are you still active in music? I find getting together and jamming with friends every few weeks has incredible sanity power! Playing music is even better than listening to it!! Take care, and I hope you enjoy ecto as I have! Bob Lovejoy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:25:53 -0500 From: "Foghorn J Fornorn" Subject: RE: Hello Ecto Gentle Giant, yes! One of my treasured memories of a lifetime was seeing them live in their "heyday" (another was seeing Genesis in the Gabriel days). I assume you are aware of the (somewhat) recent Under Construction collection available from their web site. It's targeted directly to the hard core GG fan, and the price of admission is more than compensated for me by the live version of Timing (with the quadraphonic violin solo) which didn't make the otherwise excellent Playing the Foole live album. Robert Lovejoy wrote: Finally (speaking of progressive), I was curious personally if you followed Gentle Giant at all? I was _really_ into them back in the 70's! There are one or two other Giant fans on this list, I should warn you, and they're as wierd as I am! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:00:37 -0500 From: stunning@tezcat.com Subject: Justin Roberts & Cow Lily are at GUNTHER MURPHYS, not the Hideout Due to the great memories I have of Cow Lily's show at the Hideout, I erroneously wrote: >ps. And don't forget to hit THE HIDEOUT to swoon and swing on THURSDAY >night with Justin Roberts at 9pm, followed by the Lily of the Cows, >Stephanie Turner and her band Cow Lily (feat. Worth Wagers of the >Moviegoers!) WABANSIA & ELSTON don't ya know. ________________________________________________ WELL! COW LILY ( along w/ JUSTIN ROBERTS ) isn't playing there. Nope, they are gonna be at the famous Gunther Murphy's on Belmont (just west of Lincoln/Ashland). Thursday @ 9pm. Sorry for the confusion. Any questions? Call me at 773-508-5221. And don't forget, GLEAMIR tonight(Wednesday 10pm @ Phylis's) Thomas Dunning Brown Star Records Chicago I WANNA BE KATE: The Songs of Kate Bush http://www.tezcat.com/~stunning/kate/index.html VISIT THE WEBSITE! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:16:42 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: Over the Rhine Aussie Tour I know someone (Sherilyn?) was asking about whether or not OTR would be along on the Cowboy Junkies tour of Autralia, so here's the answer... >Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:59:17 -0500 (EST) >To: over-the-rhine-announce@actwin.com >From: OTRhine@aol.com >Subject: Aussie Tour > >Karin and Linford are touring Down Under with the Cowboy Junkies. >They will open and play as part of the Junkies band. Here are the >dates. Pass them along. > >1/22 Auckland New Zealand Sky Tower Theatre (Benefit for Youth >Suicide) > >1/23 Auckland New Zealand Sweetwaters Festival > >1/28 Brisbane Australia Concert Hall > >1/29 Sydney Australia State Theater > >2/2 Melbourne Australia Palais Theater > >2/4 Adelaide Australia Norwood Concert Hall > >2/6 Perth Australia Concert Hall ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:24:52 +1100 (EST) From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: Can you help me? (fwd) Hey folks, Can anybody help this person? I haven't the faintest idea... - -sherlyn =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= a+e=ig Sherlyn Koo - sherlyn@fl.net.au [Sydney, Australia] "If I am not who you thought I was, Well hello, it's nice to meet you..." - Melissa Ferrick - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:48:23 -0500 From: Nadyne Mielke To: sherlyn@fl.net.au Subject: Can you help me? Your name sounds familiar to me, but I can't be sure. Were you a member of the Indigo Girls mailing list at some point? That's not the actual reason I'm mailing you, though. I'm looking to find the charter for the newsgroup fa.music.ecto, and I was hoping that you could point me in the right direction. I saw the talk of Cowboy Junkies there, and I was interested in subscribing to the newsgroup, but my ISP doesn't have it. I asked them to, and they asked that I forward a copy of the charter onto them. I have no idea where to find it. I was hoping that you either had a copy of it, or knew where I could get one. Thanks in advance! :) /nad ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:07:15 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Lida Husik playing in DC Forwarded from Joyride, the Lida Husik list with strong recommendations for anyone in the area to go and hear her! >Reply-To: joyride-l@hollyfeld.org > >Hmm...... a friend of mine who resides in old DC has informed me this very >day, that Lida is playing the Black Cat on teh 28 of January. I can't back >it up, but i trust in her word........oh how i wish i could go!! i was >there in october to see belle and sebastian, but er....it seems impossible >to get there right now, monetarily at least! i hope she tours a larger >swath of the country sometime soon. > >http://www.members.tripod.com/rebelstrange >No bachelor has ever experienced such desolate loneliness as does the >spinster; for the bachelor is a man, and the older spinster but a male-like >woman. >--Dr. Joseph Tanenbaum, _The Riddle of Woman_, 1936 > >____________...oooOOO---joyride-l@hollyfeld.org---OOOooo..._____________ >To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe" to joyride-l-request@hollyfeld.org >To unsubscribe your@email.com send "unsubscribe your@email.com" >http://www.hollyfeld.org/heaven/elists/joyride-l.phtml > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:18:38 -0800 From: Bill Mazur Subject: Re: welcome jackhonky wrote: > > hello bill! just wanted to welcome you to ecto! judging by your > musical tastes, you most likely you love it here, and like most of us, > find yourself spending large amounts of money because of all the new and > interesting artists that you are told about on this list. Irvin, thank you for the warm welcome! I have received several welcome messages which I greatly appreciate. > oh yeah, and isn't HAPPY great? as you probably know, HAPPY is a big > YES fan as well. you can hear do her medley of YES songs that she > performed at the YESfest in 94 on THE KEEP, that is if you haven't > already aquired it. Yes, Happy is great!!! I read that Happy is a Yes fan in the FAQ. I didn't notice that she did a Yes Medley on "The Keep". What songs does she do? I know I will be dating myself here but, I haven't missed a Yes (or ABWH) show (but one) in the SF Bay Area since my wife and I first saw them for the "Close To The Edge" tour in 1972 at The Berkeley Community Theatre (we were very young newlyweds then). The only show I missed was the one tour that they did with Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes of The Buggles. > ps. you were playing DEAD CAN DANCE. can you or anyone else clear up > this whole thing about whether or not they broke up? i keep on hearing > things like YES they DEFINITELY are not longer together, and then just > last month in SPIN magazines 25 MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 99 issue, DCD > was listed, along with how they have just finished recording it, and are > in the middle of mixing it. CLARIFICATION anyone? if they broke up, but > have already recorded the songs and are at the stages of mixing, won't > they just go ahead and release it, post break up? what a waste if they > don't. Their official site says that a new CD will be released probably in January '99. That site doesn't look like it's been updated in a long time though. A month or so ago I ran across a DCD web ring. The gent that had the main site there said that they had broken up. Brendan and Lisa had been pretty much pursuing seperate projects for awhile anyway. I *was* looking forward to a new DCD CD though. I did a quick net search today at lunch and couldn't find any thing definitive. >the new CURE album, which ROBERT SMITH says is a return to their darker earlier > roots. he compared the new album to DISTINGRATION, which of course, > makes me excited about it, as that was my FAVORITE ALL TIME CURE ALBUM My favorite as well... Thanks again, Bill n.p. IQ _Seven Stories Into Ninety Eight_ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:58:24 -0800 From: Bill Mazur Subject: Re: Hello Ecto Robert Lovejoy wrote: > > Hello Bill, and welcome to the ecto list! Thank you Robert! > Curious as to exactly how you "discovered" her, as it probably wasn't from > radio exposure! > Anyway, from the musical qualifications you posted, I'm sure you've found a > great resource here at ecto! Folks on this list have called attention to > deserving artists that commercial radio ignores. > As for Happy, what have you heard so far? There are quite a few albums > extant, and every one of them offer incredible musical revelation. By the > way, she's a "proghead" too, so even more reason for you to feel at home > here! Robert, Vickie Mapes wrote to me with a very kind welcome. She asked me some of the same questions. Here is a portion of what I wrote to her: I read rec.music.progressive from time to time. I believe that there may have been a mention of Happy there. I'm not positive of that though. That may have worked on me in a subliminal way. I also ran across Happy very briefly on the Samson Music site when I went there to get some more info on CPR. The CPR CD was one of my favorite CDs from last year. Then about a month ago I was doing a search on female singer/songwriter web rings and stumbled upon a site by a gent named Joel Siegfried. He had a link on his page that led me to Terra Incognita. A link from there led me to The Ecto Home Page. That, thankfully, has brought me to this point. So far I only have "Many Worlds Are Born Tonight". At this point I am extremely happy to have it. I have been to Music Boulevard (again thanks to your FAQ) to order her back catalog. I listened to Real Audio tracks there. I now have Rhodesongs, Equipoise, Ecto, Warpaint and Building The Colossus all on order. > Finally (speaking of progressive), I was curious personally if you followed > Gentle Giant at all? I was _really_ into them back in the 70's! There are > one or two other Giant fans on this list, I should warn you, and they're as > wierd as I am! YES! I used to play in a few progressive rock ensembles in the late 70s, early 80s. My musical partner and the bass player in several of those bands was a HUGE GG fan. At the time I just couldn't get into them. Eventually I acquired the taste. ;-) I think I have all of what are considered their classic CDs. My personal faves are "Acquiring The Taste" and "Free Hand". > Are you still active in music? I find getting together and jamming with > friends every few weeks has incredible sanity power! Playing music is even > better than listening to it!! Yes, I am again very active in playing music. That wasn't the case a year or so ago. From mid '93 to mid '97 I was with a networking start-up company that grew into a very large player in the Internet arena (BTW, your telco/ISP uses their equipment. I'm certain that you connect to the Internet on that equipment). I was very much consumed with work and didn't have too much time for playing music. I did work with my longtime songwriting partner off and on during that period. After all of my stock vested, I took a short sabbatical from hi-tech. During that time (summer '97) my partner, Katheleen, called me up and asked me to join her in the recording studio to put together a CD release of her/our material. The music we do together is not progrock or like anything that Happy does. Katheleen's background is more rooted in pop, jazz, some rock and folk. Her longtime favorite artist is Shawn Colvin. She has been into her for many years (way before she was popular). I think I bring an ever-so-slight prog influence to the music we do together. I have a good deal of influence on the arrangements of the songs. If you are interested in what we are doing, I will leave our web site URL below. > Take care, and I hope you enjoy ecto as I have! I definitely have so far and I'm very sure that I will continue to do so! Thank you again. Bill http://www.kmichaels.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:07:18 -0800 From: Bill Mazur Subject: Re: Free SNEAK PREVIEW! Sarah Slean song online Hauntingly beautiful! Andrew Fries wrote: > > In a message "Free SNEAK PREVIEW! Sarah Slean song online" on 19/Jan/1999 > 11:47:42 Steve I says: > > > There is now a free, CD-quality MP3 version of Sarah Slean's "Twin Moon" > > Ah, I just finished the download... > > New record in Feb? ... What do they mean, in Feb?!? That's at least two weeks > away! ... I must have it .... Now!!! > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Resistance is not futile. > > ------ http://www.zip.com.au/~afries/hall.html ------- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #25 *************************